My Gameboy

My experiences with the handheld

Hello. This is my first article and the first thing I thought to write about was the Game Boy. So here it is. It was back in the year 1998, the same year I got my Nintendo 64, that I saw an ad for this thing called a Game Boy and a Game Boy Camera. The camera looked like a cartridge with an eye on top.

I asked my Mom if I could have one and eventually we went to Toys R' Us and I got my Game Boy Pocket. I also got three games for it: Super Mario Land, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle 2 and Mickey's Dangerous Chase. I never did get the Camera.

This is sort of what it looked like. Mine was a brighter green and you could see the parts inside of it. It even came in a cool looking box. I never really got far in any of the games until much later when I beat Super Mario Land. That game was the most fun to play because it was like classic Mario, only I could play it on the go. Mickey's Dangerous Chase was sort of like Mickey Mousecapades for the NES only it was a tad easier and you could throw blocks. Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle was fun, but hard, because you couldn't jump. Now I know that the game was more of a puzzle game than a platformer.

Later, I got Donkey Kong Land 2 which was a port of Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Super NES. This was a fun game because it had great music and it was one of those games that just felt right. I also found the first Donkey Kong Land and I bought it as soon as I saw it. I still have 2 but 1 became lost luggage after a trip to Florida.

Donkey Kong Land 1 and 2

One day I saw an ad for two little games called Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue. This was when the Pokemon craze started and I was one of the kids who got hooked. My grandmother even got me a Pokemon comic book/manga. I wanted a game more than anythingand I eventually got the Blue version and loved it.

I didn't get very far though and the reason is because I didn't play it the "right" way, which is to make your Pokemon teams levels even. Despite that I still liked the game bacause of the memorable music and the unique looking Pokemon Sprites. Here is an example of what I mean.

One year later, in 1999, my beloved Grandfather passed away. I was devestated and so I drowned my sorrows by playing video games. I played a lot after that happened. My Mom got me the new Game Boy model: The Game Boy Color! You could now play games in color compared to the first model with black and white games. I got Pokemon Yellow with it which was based on the ultra-cool (at the time) T.V. show.

My Game Boy color was Yellow

I was able to get farther in this game but I still was defeated easily becaused I only trained my Pikachu. Later in 2000, I got Pokemon Silver Version which added 100 new pokemon to the series. I always started with the water pokemon and I still do.

I continued to get games for my Game Boy Color. Another game that I got was Donald Duck: Going Quackers. This was a fun game and had good graphics for its time. I also came in a cool Game Boy Color Only cartridge. In 2001, the official new Game Boy model, the GameBoy Advance came out. I tried to come up with ways for money so I could buy it,but I got it for Christmas. I got Jimmy Neutron: the Game and Spyro: Season of Ice, which I thought was a fun game.

This is were I will stop because the Game Boy Advance isn't really retro. So, there is my first article and I hope you all like it. I am open to both comments and suggestions.

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I think this is a good article. A first article isn't always easy. The only Game Boy I have is a Game Boy Color. Our old Game Boy's don't work. I don't have that much Game Boy games and I wish to have Super Mario World. I have the sequel.

If you want honest criticism, it wasn't too bad, but it read kind of blandly. It didn't seem exciting and it was kind of difficult to read through. I think you've got potential, though, so I wouldn't stop writing just because of one bad article.

Also, you could have talked more about the Gameboy Advance if you wanted to. I would consider it retro, since the Nintendo DS has come and replaced it. It would just be "newly retro."